I was really clever about it: purchased it as a present "for my wife." This was 1980 I believe, and the 800s were in short supply. Or I couldn't get one locally, or there was some problem getting one. Therefore, I purchased it mail order, but due to some sort of mixup, it didn't come in until AFTER Christmas - like the 27th. In fact, I got a call from a Freight carrier at Dulles Airport saying it was in, and could they get directions to my house. I asked them when it would be delivered, and they said it would take two to three days. "Not good enough!" I said. "If I drive out there, can I pick it up?" "Sure thing".

So I hopped in my car at around 6 in the evening and drove to Dulles Airport - a trip of about 25 miles from where I lived in Springfield, VA. I found the freight terminal, got the package and made it back home around 8 or 8:30. I unpacked it, and carefully put everything together. I then opened the Star Raiders box, plugged in the cart, turned on the power... and there it was in all its' glory on the TV. Score!

I then went upstairs to my wife, who was in bed at this point (it was probably 10 or 10:30 PM by this time). "Honey, your Christmas present is here, and I put it together.. do you want to see it?" "Unghhhhh... no, I'll just look at it tomorrow."

If only I could share with you the look on her face when she saw her "big present." Well, maybe that's for the best... suffice to say, she was not what you call "overwhelmed" by getting a computer and video game for her big Christmas present (note to self: girls like jewelry and clothes!)

The next year, on my birthday in May, I came home from work to my "big present": an antique high chair that converts to a stroller. As I looked at it, she leaned towards me and said "we're even now for that computer you gave me last Christmas"

P.S., The Atari 800 is long gone, but we still have the stroller, sitting in our dining room.

Logged

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

man, I'm trying to remember.... it was on a Commodore 64... Maybe Temple of Apshai? Or was it Lode Runner.... I dunno, I remember there was a C-64 users group on the base we lived on at the time and it was basically just an excuse for everybody to get together and copy each others games

I think I filled up 10 5.24 floppies that first time I went, so I had a bunch at once. Hard to remember....

It was some kind of Star Trek game but I don't know if it even had a title. My Uncle worked at Xerox and it was on their mainframe. The goal of the game was to search a meteor field for Klingons. We played by dialing into Xerox and since this was in the days prior to monitors being common each turn was viewed by printing out the gamefield. Okay, I guess this is not really a PC game.

Son of a bitch...I've always tried to remember this game and I think I saw it on Icons on G4 one time...it's really old.

It's like, you're a ninja guy...and you duel against other ninja-type people and on the bottom of the screen are the hit points, and they're like, little sideways triangles? Anyone know what game I'm talking about?

All I remember is that the first PC we owned was an Apple IIc, soon followed by an Apple IIGS.

Then we came to the light and switched to an IBM PC Compatible.

While I can't remember my first game, I do remember this one classic on the IIGS called Task Force or something. It was a side-scroller where it was you as the cops verses waves of baddies. Had excellent sound (voices!), graphics (people that looked like people), and lots of weapons (machine guns, pistols, rocket launchers, a tazer weapon, etc), and it even supported two players.

That was a classic.

Logged

"All opinions posted are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled."

Played on one of these badboys:4.77Mhz baby. That's how I rolled. Or, how my brother rolled in college. He would bring it home during break and I would play the shit out of KQ, Zaxxon, Beer Tapper, the original Test Drive, and a few others I can't remember.

King's Quest had the biggest impact on me. I remember doing this horrible, horrible map for it on a nasty piece of notebook paper, carefully marking down the contents of each screen. I can't describe how much I loved all those old Sierra adventures. I played just about every one.

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves on an Atari 800. An obscure turn-based RPG-type of game that allowed four player cooperative gameplay. My best friend and I would stay up all night playing that.

Even though it was not the first PC game I ever played, I still hold Jumpman very dear to my heart. I can still hear the Jumpman theme in my head. I recently downloaded an Atari computer emulator and the Jumpman game image, and much to my surprise, I STILL remember the patterns I used on some of the levels.

Zork or Wizardry or Ali Baba on the nieghbor's Apple II. I can't rmember which was first, but I'm sure within a week of the first one I played the other two for the first time, so let's make it a three way tie. It's the most fair way I can do it.

I'm not entirely sure what was the first game.I remember playing Lemonade Stand (not sure if I'll count that as my first real game).Tai Pan was pretty cool.I think the first real game I played and got hooked on was Wizardry 1. Good times.

I want to say mine was FS95 I started late 1992. Maybe it was not 95 what ever the first FS was I remember using a 3.5hard disk to copy it from my computer in the business classes. I would spend the whole lunch hour flying the Cessna around Chicago.

Ok There was some "Tunnels and Trolls" on some Tandy counterpart (Maybe a vic, I think it was like the original tandy)that played off a tape.

When I got my c64, I played a shitload of games for it.... I'ma go with o dear god... there was Karetka on the Apple, strip poker on the apple, this really goofy game where you were stuck had to escape from some place and to get the stuff you needed, you could only program robots to do things... you would get chips you could use to make it do things, like hit a wall and make a left... I never finished it and It had to have been 20 years ago+ so dont ask me to remeber it, lol

so many old old PC games i have played...

first PC Game I prolly played woulda eiter been lode runner when the apple first came out, or that Vic/tandy game..

*edit*I thought about it and I did play space invaders/Pacman on a atari 400/800... that count?